tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54634727726798764022015-07-16T21:05:29.360-04:00SpencerblogSpencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.comBlogger5814125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5463472772679876402.post-30400656716326636042013-03-13T02:39:00.002-04:002013-03-13T09:40:41.271-04:00Spencerblog Must Be GoingThis is in reference to <a href="http://www.delcotimes.com/articles/2013/03/10/opinion/doc513bfe70e3c0d598810819.txt?viewmode=fullstory">this.</a><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/i6yLRmo7CjU" width="420"></iframe>Spencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.com104tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5463472772679876402.post-86598977022877143682013-03-09T22:50:00.001-05:002013-03-09T22:50:24.105-05:00Heh!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://global.nationalreview.com/images/pic_cartoon_030913_new_A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://global.nationalreview.com/images/pic_cartoon_030913_new_A.jpg" /></a></div><br />Spencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5463472772679876402.post-77687357436836268492013-03-08T08:06:00.001-05:002013-03-09T21:36:31.257-05:00A Man and His Dog<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KuA-YXhgM1o/UTniAG31blI/AAAAAAAAAK8/hzYBvPix0nk/s1600/photo-3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KuA-YXhgM1o/UTniAG31blI/AAAAAAAAAK8/hzYBvPix0nk/s320/photo-3.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br />Steve Miller and Bones at the Secane Station Tavern. My <a href="http://www.delcotimes.com/articles/2013/03/08/opinion/doc51396bda84d11376836487.txt?viewmode=fullstory">print column</a> is up.<br /><br />UPDATE: Though the reaction to this column was generally positive there was this email:<br /><br /><div class="itmPrt cnvLayer1" farchive="0" fdraft="0" fexp="0" fjnk="0" flocal="1" fmr="0" folk="0" fphsh="0" fr="1" freadrcp="0" frr="0" fsup="1" id="divIP1" iimgflt="4" iinternetmid="-1083818545" sck="0FgBHN7KQk+kSp+MVRsWEQAAA/fA2Q==" sfid="LgAAAADxrawEvAuRQJ9m1iaB3MrgAQDQWAEc3spCT6RKn4xVGxYRAAAAE3VEAAAB" sitmid="RgAAAADxrawEvAuRQJ9m1iaB3MrgBwDQWAEc3spCT6RKn4xVGxYRAAAAE3VEAADQWAEc3spCT6RKn4xVGxYRAAAD9xl1AAAJ" st="IPM.Note" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; position: relative; z-index: 1;"><div class="divExp" id="divExp" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 4px; padding-left: 10px; position: relative; width: auto; z-index: 0;"><div _fallwcm="1" class="bdyItmPrt" id="divBdy" style="clear: both; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 15px 15px 0px; position: relative; top: -5px; width: auto; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="ltr"><span dir="ltr"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>Dear Gil:</i></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>Although that story is meant to be heartwarming, I think it conveys a cycle of disrespect for that animal.&nbsp; How willingly he was ready to give it to anyone that called about it and then to a drunk couple in a bar. Then he made sure he got a good’s night sleep even though he knew there were problems when the dog got to the couple’s home. Yes, indeed. I can see he has the best interests of the animal in mind.</i></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>If you want to write a story of animal rescue, write about the animal rescue groups that work tirelessly to save and place these animals in loving homes. There is a process to animal adoption and ownership, a process to introducing pets into a home . We need to talk about responsibility to pets and not recycling them back into potentially unfit homes.</i></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>Karen Ditomo</i></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></div><div>I say: Nah, it's always a better story when the dog goes to the bar. But thanks anyway, Karen, for the advice.&nbsp;</div></span></span></div></div></div></div><br /><br /><br />Spencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5463472772679876402.post-47609900632342786122013-03-06T18:25:00.003-05:002013-03-06T18:25:23.057-05:00Heh...The best part about this is that it's real<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/sites/default/files/nfs/uploaded/u25930/2013/pic_corner_030513_gohmert.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.nationalreview.com/sites/default/files/nfs/uploaded/u25930/2013/pic_corner_030513_gohmert.png" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Spencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5463472772679876402.post-57812473213799007862013-03-06T18:02:00.001-05:002013-03-06T18:02:54.253-05:00SequesterFail<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://global.nationalreview.com/images/pic_cartoon_030613_new_A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://global.nationalreview.com/images/pic_cartoon_030613_new_A.jpg" /></a></div><br />Spencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5463472772679876402.post-37608016565205107422013-03-06T13:47:00.002-05:002013-03-06T13:52:53.429-05:00Campus Hate and the People Who Fake It Oberlin College in Ohio has nothing on our very own Swarthmore College when it comes to concern about hate crimes on campus, real or imagined. My <a href="http://www.delcotimes.com/articles/2013/03/06/opinion/doc5136a71f8ee3e669614246.txt?viewmode=fullstory">print column</a> is up.<br /><br />UPDATE: Michele Malkin is also <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/06/the_coddling_of_college_hate_crime_hoaxers_117301.html">on the story</a> and has even bigger doubts about it than I do. She has good reason.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">The truth is that Oberlin has been a hotbed of dubious hate crime claims, dating back to the late 1980s and 1990s, when I was a student on campus. In 1988, giant signs reading "White Supremacy Rules (Kill All Niggers)" and "White Supremacy Rules, (F**k (slashed out and replaced with 'Kill') All Minorities)" were hung anonymously at the Student Union building. It has long been suspected that minority students themselves were responsible.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">In 1993, a memorial arch on campus dedicated to Oberlin missionaries who died in the Boxer Rebellion was defaced with anti-Asian graffiti. The venomous messages -- "Death to Chinks Memorial" and "Dead chinks, good chinks" -- led to a paroxysm of protests, administration self-flagellation and sanctimonious resolutions condemning bigotry. But the hate crime was concocted by an Asian-American Oberlin student engaged in the twisted pursuit of raising awareness about hate by faking it, Tawana Brawley-style.</blockquote>And so it goes...<br />Spencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5463472772679876402.post-9000644382713746982013-02-28T20:13:00.004-05:002013-03-01T06:45:00.395-05:00Bama TimeHere's a preview of tomorrow's print column on the sequester and the federal budget.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PLIJc7YE_jw" width="560"></iframe><br /><div><br /></div><div>UPDATE: Happy Sequester Day. Here's my <a href="http://www.delcotimes.com/articles/2013/03/01/opinion/doc51302ef229fd2680240590.txt">print column</a></div>Spencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5463472772679876402.post-33727303340075419982013-02-27T11:28:00.002-05:002013-02-27T11:28:40.856-05:00A Lew-dicrous TalentIn coming Treasury Sec. Jack Lew impresses Rich Lowry <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/02/26/jack_lew__the_art_of_the_score_117166.html">with his ability</a> to "get paid."<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>Some guys have it, and some don’t. I’m referring to that special quality that makes powerful institutions want to throw fistfuls of dollars at them in senseless acts of high-priced beneficence.</i></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>Jack Lew has it like nobody’s business. You might think the bespectacled treasury-secretary nominee is just another brainy budget wonk and miss the animal magnetism that makes his employers lose all sense of financial proportion around him, paying him astronomical sums, forgiving his loans, and granting him generous golden parachutes.</i></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 13px;">Yes, Jack Lew is a rare talent — at the art of getting paid.</span>&nbsp;</i></blockquote><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4;">Good stuff. Read it all.</span>Spencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5463472772679876402.post-90568865431651869052013-02-27T11:21:00.002-05:002013-02-27T11:21:41.617-05:00Madness in the White House Barack Obama is <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/bob-woodward-obama-sequester-republicans-2013-2">losing Bob Woodward...</a><br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 9px; text-align: left;">Obama Is Showing 'A Kind Of Madness I Haven't Seen In A Long Time'</span></blockquote>Which begs the question: When was the last time he saw this kind of madness from a sitting president. Nixon? Carter?<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">&nbsp;</blockquote>Spencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5463472772679876402.post-46692895620898910692013-02-27T07:56:00.001-05:002013-02-27T07:56:30.574-05:00Pie Chart Dart<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/mrz022613dAPR20130226024519.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/mrz022613dAPR20130226024519.jpg" /></a></div><span id="goog_2093037353"></span><span id="goog_2093037354"></span><br />Spencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5463472772679876402.post-64436492964803182412013-02-27T07:32:00.001-05:002013-02-27T07:36:33.871-05:00Silva Linings Playbook *Terry Silva, the former solicitor for the Chichester School District, is back in the news. A renowned dog lover, she is charged with the inhumane treatment of 28 German shepherds which she kept locked up in her law office building.<br /><br />The building is now closed to human habitation.<br /><br />My <a href="http://www.delcotimes.com/articles/2013/02/27/opinion/doc512d8213171d1438358635.txt">print column</a> is up.<br /><br />* h/t DT editor Joe Hart<br /><br />UPDATE: Special added bonus... Sunday's <a href="http://www.delcotimes.com/articles/2013/02/24/opinion/doc51299573ca2ad161851140.txt">print column</a> on how a concealed carry permit helped an innocent man beat a bad rap.Spencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5463472772679876402.post-78114920747125860722013-02-27T07:18:00.002-05:002013-02-27T07:24:35.199-05:00The Sky Isn't FallingGoverning is not about blaming. It's about choosing. Phil Gramm on <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323384604578327792209356054.html">the coming sequester.</a><br /><br /><blockquote>While Mr. Obama may choose to make the cuts ordered by the sequester in the most painful way possible, the best alternative—which is practiced every year to some extent—is allowing federal agencies to transfer funds among individual programs with congressional approval or by rearranging priorities as part of the March 27 resolution to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year.</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">That doesn't sound like a herculean task to Americans who make hard choices every day. Their choices have become harder and more frequent because the country's political leaders seem unwilling to do the same in Washington.</blockquote>Spencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5463472772679876402.post-45077315617920905522013-02-22T15:58:00.002-05:002013-02-22T16:09:03.192-05:00Nice Mug Shot<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.delcotimes.com/content/articles/2013/02/22/news/doc512640f077e833983119351.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.delcotimes.com/content/articles/2013/02/22/news/doc512640f077e833983119351.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div>What is this man so happy about? Apparently, he's delighted to be <a href="http://www.delcotimes.com/articles/2013/02/22/news/doc512640f077e83398311935.txt?viewmode=fullstory">under arrest</a> for killing two Bernese Mountain dogs that were family pets.<br /><br />Well, they were allegedly trying to herd his sheep.&nbsp;</div>Spencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5463472772679876402.post-50977266359819872742013-02-22T10:17:00.000-05:002013-02-22T10:17:13.164-05:00Check Mate<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://global.nationalreview.com/images/pic_photoshop_021913_new_A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://global.nationalreview.com/images/pic_photoshop_021913_new_A.jpg" /></a></div><br />Spencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5463472772679876402.post-64414832403468890472013-02-22T09:23:00.001-05:002013-02-22T09:23:06.638-05:00Cruel but Not UnusualGeorge Will on the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-the-torture-of-solitary-confinement/2013/02/20/ae115d74-7ac9-11e2-9a75-dab0201670da_story.html">torture of solitary confinement.</a><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">“Zero Dark Thirty,” a nominee for Sunday’s Oscar for&nbsp;<a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/movies/zero-dark-thirty,1211300.html" style="color: black;">Best Picture</a>, reignited debate about whether the waterboarding of terrorism suspects was torture. This practice, which ended in 2003, was used&nbsp;<a data-xslt="_http" href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2007/11/exclusive-only/" style="color: black;">on only three suspects</a>. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of American prison inmates are kept in protracted solitary confinement that arguably constitutes torture and probably violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition of “cruel and unusual punishments...”</blockquote><div><blockquote class="tr_bq">...&nbsp;<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">Supermax prisons isolate inmates from social contact. Often prisoners are in their cells, sometimes smaller than 8 by 12 feet, 23 hours a day, released only for a shower or exercise in a small fenced-in outdoor space. Isolation changes the way the brain works, often making individuals&nbsp;</span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">more</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">impulsive,&nbsp;</span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">less</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">&nbsp;able to control themselves. The mental pain of solitary confinement is crippling: Brain studies reveal durable impairments and abnormalities in individuals denied social interaction. Plainly put, prisoners often lose their minds.</span></blockquote>&nbsp;Read it all.</div>Spencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5463472772679876402.post-82253738933103485672013-02-22T08:53:00.003-05:002013-02-22T08:53:33.174-05:00Our Real Obesity Problem<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/payn_c10736520130222120100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/payn_c10736520130222120100.jpg" /></a></div><br />Spencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5463472772679876402.post-64755913219381041582013-02-22T08:28:00.001-05:002013-02-22T08:28:12.741-05:00The Governor's SpeechEd Rendell says America isn't great anymore because politicians aren't spending enough. How wrong is our former governor? Let me <a href="http://www.delcotimes.com/articles/2013/02/22/opinion/doc5126eda5acc3d941935915.txt?viewmode=fullstory">count the ways.</a>Spencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.com55tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5463472772679876402.post-48442389941754533952013-02-21T07:31:00.000-05:002013-02-21T07:31:31.576-05:00An Oscar Blacklisting Made in D.C.Dan Henninger has <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324048904578316344122853744.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop">a few thoughts</a> about the Oscar blacklisting of <i>Zero Dark Thirty</i> director Kathyrn Bigalow.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Suddenly it was a film about waterboarding, rather than what Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal produced: The story of U.S. intelligence officers spending years digesting an incomprehensible flow of half-baked data, making mistakes and wrong calls, some getting blown up themselves by suicide bombers and finally, after three of them ride around teeming Peshawar in a Jeep with some tracking device, they nail the identity of bin Laden's courier. On May 2, 2011, bin Laden was dead. That's "Zero Dark Thirty."</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">But not for Dianne Feinstein or the Hollywood hundreds. Here's her denunciatory letter's best part: "The use of torture in the fight against terrorism did severe damage to America's values and standing that cannot be justified or expunged. It remains a stain on our national conscience. We cannot afford to go back to these dark times. . . . You have a social and moral obligation to get the facts right."</blockquote><br />It is always comical to be lectured by U.S. Senators like Feinstein about our "moral obligations" when they can't even meet their legal obligations to say... come up with a budget.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Feinstein has little to say about the president's drone program that kills not only al Qaeda operatives but untargeted and innocent men, women and children. Instead she deems to lecture and marginalize one of the few filmmakers in the business today who is sympathetic to the tough job of protecting the country.<br /><br />Zero Dark Thirty is not the film Feinstein and company says it is. That a few Hollywood has-beens would side with Feinstein's and her criticisms is hardly surprising. The rest of us shouldn't be so gullible.Spencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5463472772679876402.post-55556060364465491672013-02-20T07:10:00.001-05:002013-02-20T07:10:19.305-05:00Blame the Morons Who Gave Him a Mulligan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://global.nationalreview.com/images/pic_cartoon_022013_new_A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://global.nationalreview.com/images/pic_cartoon_022013_new_A.jpg" /></a></div><br />Spencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5463472772679876402.post-77896967280097720042013-02-19T21:22:00.001-05:002013-02-19T21:22:52.574-05:00Cheaper by an Almost DozenQuote of the year <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2280385/Jobless-mother-11-Heather-Frost-6-bed-eco-house-moaning-TWO-council-homes-cramped.html">from a neighbor</a> of a jobless woman with 11 kids:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><b>"She treats her womb like a clown car."</b></blockquote>Crude, but she has a point.Spencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5463472772679876402.post-24155245536435655262013-02-19T21:16:00.002-05:002013-02-19T21:16:17.241-05:00Young and Stupid Is No Way to Go Through LifeDean Wormer said something close to it first. Nick Gillespie <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2013/02/18/hey-kids-tonight-youre-young-tomorrow-yo">tries to explain</a> it to a new generation.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i>Today’s youth is being turned out into a world where they face an unemployment rate of&nbsp;<a href="http://dailyfreepress.com/2013/02/05/youth-unemployment-up-in-january-study-finds/" style="border: 0px; color: #f37221; cursor: pointer; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">13 percent</a>&nbsp;– five points higher than the overall figure – and in which they will be forced for the first time buy health insurance plans they may not want or need to subsidize the premiums of older Americans.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/obama-healthcare-young-people" style="border: 0px; color: #f37221; cursor: pointer; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">It’s a feature, not a bug</a>, of Obamacare that premiums for those under 30 will increase by as much as 50 percent while those over 60 will pay 10 percent less. If the economists Carmen Reinhart, Vincent Reinhart, and Kenneth Rogoff are correct in their&nbsp;<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2013/02/13/obama-and-the-debt-a-love-story" style="border: 0px; color: #f37221; cursor: pointer; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">“debt overhang”</a>&nbsp;theory, the massive levels of sustained debt the U.S. has racked up over the past decade may substantially reduce economic growth by something like 24 percent over the next twenty years or more.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Yet if&nbsp;<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2013/02/12/state-of-the-union-will-obama-tell-young" style="border: 0px; color: #f37221; cursor: pointer; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">a New York Times story</a>&nbsp;that came out the same day as the Grammys is to be trusted, the kids today support the personification of wet blanket government – Barack Obama – far more than any other age range and the under-30 crowd is the only group who ardently believes government “should do more to solve problems.” &nbsp;Which is really tantamount to saying that government should do more to&nbsp;</span><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">cause</span><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;problems.</span></i></blockquote><br /><br />Spencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5463472772679876402.post-6615762280455557322013-02-18T18:59:00.003-05:002013-02-18T19:01:40.195-05:00Veet For MenReading the reviews of <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B000KKNQBK">this product</a> had me laughing my arse off.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416VQTXkTXL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416VQTXkTXL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" /></a></div><br />I'm talking tears running down my face. I'm ordering a tube tonight and sending it to my second-to- worst enemy. My worst doesn't deserve it.Spencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5463472772679876402.post-43282914680932837622013-02-18T08:34:00.003-05:002013-02-18T08:34:40.414-05:00Professor, Conservative, Farmer: Victor Davis Hanson Watch this...<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/nHjV-FPMm_I" width="560"></iframe><br /><br />Then read <a href="http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/the-super-bowl-farmers/?singlepage=true">this...</a> It's excellent. Here's a taste:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">The commercial’s platitudes were cleverly juxtaposed with grainy pictures of un-Botoxed people doing real physical work and in concert with each other, using big machines, and looking the worse for wear from it. True or not, we at least were to believe that no one in those still shots had hair plugs, bleached teeth, or faux tans in the manner of our vice president, who tries so hard to be an oh-so-authentic “Joey.” In that regard, Clint Eastwood’s resonance hinges in part on the fact that his lined and craggy face does not resemble what has happened to Sylvester Stallone’s, and he did not engage in the sort of embarrassing, obsequious fawning about George Bush that a&nbsp;</span><a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2520729" style="background-color: white; color: #24839f; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">Chris Rock</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;or&nbsp;</span><a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/11/26/jamie-foxx-calls-obama-our-lord-and-savior" style="background-color: white; color: #24839f; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">Jamie Foxx</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;has monotonously done about Barack Obama. Americans still admire authenticity, and that too explains the later YouTube popularity of the commercial.</span></blockquote>Read it all.Spencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5463472772679876402.post-9911286340182173472013-02-17T08:31:00.003-05:002013-02-17T08:31:48.231-05:00Obama's Magical Kingdom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/mrz021413dAPR20130214124513.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/mrz021413dAPR20130214124513.jpg" /></a></div><br />Spencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5463472772679876402.post-78726533563026354792013-02-17T08:07:00.001-05:002013-02-17T08:07:36.959-05:00Looking for Answers in Matt White TragedyThe system may have failed Matt and Reyes White but not the mental health system. It never got the chance. My <a href="http://www.delcotimes.com/articles/2013/02/17/opinion/doc5120538137f18220165713.txt?viewmode=fullstory">print column is up.</a>Spencerbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09091827187116268547noreply@blogger.com4